I have configured my Ubuntu 14.04 with dotfiles found here
Mathias Dotfiles. Everything is going smooth, I installed both RVM(Ruby Version Manager) and NVM(Node Version Manager). In order for both of ...

I'd like to come up with a way to always source the user's profile and bash configuration files upon a interactive login or non-interactive login despite what file structure they may have. It would ...

Hi I wanted to talk to the pros on the compiling and decompiling Android source and binaries respectively. Is it possible to decompile an Android OS running in a device and get its source, so that you ...

I am trying build the kde from the source available on https://www.kde.org/info/4.14.3.php, but I am a bit lost about the order of installation of the packages listed on the page, which would give me ...

Sorry for the super simple question, but I don't know what terminology to throw at google to get the answer since I don't see this covered anywhere.
Most compiling instructions I've found are pretty ...

Newbie Ubuntu user here...
I use a tool called YUMI to create a USB boot device.
Its Debian package and its source can be downloaded from http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/.
I ...

In most Linux distros there is a command sometimes the same one used to install or build (compile) packages with extra switch; which just download the source files instead of building or installing ...

I have a Mac running OSX 10.9.1 and I want to install Gerris and its dependencies.
In the last lines of the page I have to install ffmpeg. But there are lots of releases of ffmpeg. Which one I should ...

I'd like to get a custom output from the tree command, but unlike this question, I don't have a fixed format. I'd like to be able to give the command the format in an argument (for instance perhaps ...

I have a RHEL 6.4 VM provisioned by my companies internal KVM.
We are having some trouble using yum (Cannot retrieve repository metadata, which Ive confirmed in this case is peculiar to my company's ...

To install software on a Linux system, many tools like yum, apt-get, rpm, dpkg and so on are available to either fetch a package from a repository or install a downloaded package.
Alternatively, it ...

Everytime when I want to build application from source on linux, I have to install dependencies libraries in my operating system (ubuntu).
Typical scenario:
Start ./configure
Got error about missing ...

I am wondering if, since Linux is 100% open-source, it is possible to follow line-by-line instructions of Linux to observe how the OS works entirely, so that one may get a better knowledge of how OSes ...